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a letter requiring Buck to deliver up the books and other property of the Office.[1] His death took place on 20 September 1623.[2] Astley almost immediately sold his office to Sir Henry Herbert, whose tenure of it belongs to the history of the Caroline stage.

  1. Murray, ii. 193, from Inner Temple MS. 515; cf. Collier, i. 402; Gildersleeve, 64.
  2. Herbert, 67, 109.